[Air-L] Unofficial Risky Research Working Group

[Evelina Liliequist]

Great initative Alice!

We welcome research about these issues for a panel at SIEF 2023. See below.

SIEF Call for Papers
Brno 7-10 June, 2023

Precarious Topics, Precarious Researchers<https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/sief2023/p/12760>

Convenors:
Robert Glenn Howard (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Evelina Liliequist (Humlab, Umeå University)


Researchers are increasingly subject to risks when working with divisive topics online. From death threats to “doxing,” digital landscapes such as anti-gender, anti-science, and populism among many others raise important questions about when and how researchers can or should seek protection. The ethical practices for protecting research participants is a given part of a research process. But what protocols and strategies are available for researchers?

Studying toxic environments, and/or emotionally and physically heavy subjects could also mean a risk for the researcher. What support is at hand for researchers from their Universities, and from the research community in such situations?

Moreover, contemporary political contexts entail that we live in precarious times - with acts of war, extremism and polarized political discourses imbuing our everyday lives - resulting for some researchers in physical threats and exil. For others in safer places, the question of solidarity and responsibility cannot be ignored.

This panel invites contributions addressing how the complexity of threats to research and researchers can be approached, for instance:

- research in toxic digital environments,

- risks entailed by the online presence of the researcher,

- digital precarity of researchers in exil, or

- threats towards academic freedom.

One purpose of the panel is also to gather strategies and resources for protecting researchers such as examples of solidarity and ways of preventing and coping with online abuse and researchers' vulnerability.
Welcome to propose your paper today:
https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/sief2023/p/12760
Deadline 10 January, 2023

If you have questions about the panel email us:
Evelina: evelina.liliequist at umu.se<mailto:evelina.liliequist at umu.se>
Robert: rghoward2 at wisc.edu<mailto:rghoward2 at wisc.edu>

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Skickat: Wednesday, November 16, 2022 9:18:54 PM
Till: Alice E. Marwick <amarwick at gmail.com>
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Ämne: Re: [Air-L] Unofficial Risky Research Working Group

There was discussion by some scholars in the 2017 AoIR workshop in Tartu
Estonia about researching hacker communities and some practical
considerations for safety.

I work in a national statistics agency and while I can't represent the
agency,  we have hundreds of professional interviewers who work with us who
have methods that I can probably find documentation on to share. Mostly we
have our banks of telephone interviewers but we have field interviewers
too. I should be able to find public information about our safety
techniques.

On Wed., Nov. 16, 2022, 12:19 p.m. Alice E. Marwick via Air-L, <
air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> At AOIR22, I volunteered to head up an unofficial AOIR effort about
> protecting people from risky research - research that puts scholars at risk
> from networked harassment, online abuse, reputational damage, and
> emotional/mental health impacts. The goal is to create a document somewhat
> similar to the AOIR Ethics Guide to help both individuals and institutions
> mitigate such risk, with an emphasis on collective rather than
> individual solutions.
>
> I am looking for people interested in working on this project in any
> capacity - brainstorming, research, writing, resources, etc. My goal is to
> draw on the massive expertise of AOIR members, many of whom I know already
> work on this or similar efforts.
>
> I have put together a Google Doc summarizing the preliminary vision for
> this effort and a Google Form that you can fill out to get involved.
>
> Doc:
>
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> If you have already contacted me about wanting to be involved, thanks!
> Please fill out the form anyway because I don't want anyone to fall through
> the cracks and this will help me keep all the ideas in one place.
>
> Let me know if there are any questions! Also, can someone repost this to
> the ECR/grad Discord?
>
> Thanks!
> Alice
> Alice E. Marwick, PhD (she/her)
> Associate Professor, Department of Communication
> Principal Researcher, Center for Information, Technology and Public Life
> (CITAP)
> University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
> amarwick at gmail.com
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